i love in pokemon games when there's an area you can go to really early, but some of it is blocked off, and then it gets unblocked at the very end of the game
because you have to imagine that the level 4 and the level 60 pokemon decided amongst themselves "listen, i'll stay on this side of the line if you stay on that side"
@monorail If you think about it tho... there's only one final boss... and literally INFINITE numbers of level four pokemon...
...sure the final boss pokemon might be able to kill each low level pokemon in one hit but out of four moves, each of those has no more than 30 PP to spend... even if we assume each move has 30 PP each, that's still only 120 times it can act before it resorts to Struggle.
And eventually, that 1HP of damage each one might manage to make is gonna add up...
@monorail oh I know, I just like to think of a very nervous super powerful Pokémon sat there behind a gate while a bunch of level 3 wooloo give it knowing looks
@Nine i'm not talking final boss
i mean like
level four wild pokemon at the beginning and then behind the barrier, all the wild pokemon are suddenly much stronger
and it's often not a physical barrier, you just aren't allowed to go that way yet